Britain Quote by Ed Balls

An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions. They seem to sense... that gold and…

— Alan Greenspan

In truth, the gold standard is already a barbarous relic. All of us, from the Governor of the Bank of England downwards, are now…

— John Maynard Keynes

The gold standard did not collapse. Governments abolished it in order to pave the way for inflation. The whole grim apparatus of oppression and…

— Ludwig von Mises

I think I understand the Constitution a little bit because in 1971 we went off the gold standard under President Nixon into the Federal…

— Bill O'Reilly

We looked into the abyss if the gold price rose further. A further rise would have taken down one or several trading houses, which…

— Eddie George

The gold standard makes the money's purchasing power independent of the changing, ambitions and doctrines of political parties and pressure groups. This is not…

— Ludwig von Mises

Monetary reform, if it is to be genuine and successful, must sever money and banking from politics. That's why a modern gold standard must…

— Lawrence Reed

The abandonment of the gold standard made it possible for the welfare statists to use the banking system as a means to an unlimited…

— Alan Greenspan

The superiority of the gold standard consists in the fact that the value of gold develops independent of political actions.

— Ludwig von Mises

“America has, in fact, run trade deficits large enough to wipe out its gold hoard under the old rules of the game. Still, the…

— James Rickards

Gold was not selected arbitrarily by governments to be the monetary standard. Gold had developed for many centuries on the free market as the…

— Murray Rothbard

You could own coins but you couldn't have bars of gold. We were on the gold standard. I think it was Nixon who took…

— Carl Andre